The future of human nature - Habermas, Jürgen; Habermas, Jürgen. (Cambridge, UK : Polity, 2003)
Are there postmetaphysical answers to the question: what is the "good life"? -- The debate on the ethical self-understanding of the species -- Moralizing human nature? -- Human dignity versus the dignity of human life -- The embedding of morality in an ethics of the species -- The grown and the made -- Natality, the capacity of being oneself, and the ban on instrumentalization -- The moral limits of eugenics -- Setting the pace for a self-instrumentalization of the species? -- Faith and knowledge.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 116-127).
Translated into English.
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Keywords: Ethics; Eugenics -- Moral and ethical aspects; Ethics; Ethics; Eugenics -- Moral and ethical aspects; Bioethik; Ethiek; Menselijke natuur; Eugenetica; Genetische manipulatie